Mission

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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles works in partnership with God, the community, and people in need by building and renovating homes to make affordable home ownership a matter of conscience and action. The service area of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles encompasses a nearly 900 square-mile roughly bounded by the Ventura County line on the west, Mullholland Drive, Interstates 101 and 60 on the north, San Pedro and the Pacific Ocean beyond on the south, and the Orange county line on the east. Since 1990, we have built and rehabilitated over 900 homes locally and internationally. Habitat for Humanity is an ecumenical Christian organization that does not identify with any one church or denomination.

Mission

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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles works in partnership with God, the community, and people in need by building and renovating homes to make affordable home ownership a matter of conscience and action. The service area of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles encompasses a nearly 900 square-mile roughly bounded by the Ventura County line on the west, Mullholland Drive, Interstates 101 and 60 on the north, San Pedro and the Pacific Ocean beyond on the south, and the Orange county line on the east. Since 1990, we have built and rehabilitated over 900 homes locally and internationally. Habitat for Humanity is an ecumenical Christian organization that does not identify with any one church or denomination.

Results Information

Results Information

What is your organization aiming to accomplish?

Habitat LA is driven by the idea that everyone deserves a safe, decent and affordable place to live.

What are your strategies for making this happen?

To achieve our goal of providing affordable, safe homes, Habitat LA's efforts are focused under four broad categories of action: (1) home production, implemented through our neighborhood revitalization model, a targeted approach including home construction, home repair and the acquisition and rehabilitation of foreclosed properties (2) lending, we offer first-time, low-income homeowners access to zero-equivalency, affordable loans; (3) advocacy for socially just public policy that assures low-income families have affordable and decent homes (4) training in financial literacy, homeownership, construction and youth leadership development.

What are your organization's capabilities for doing this?

Since 1990, Habitat LA has helped nearly 4,000 Angelenos build opportunities for their families and strengthen their communities with quality affordable housing. Habitat LA's model is more than just direct services as we strive for broader community impact that supports our mission and vision.

How will your organization know if you are making progress?

To those involved with Habitat LA, our true impact is beyond measure. Our impact can be seen in the faces of our homeowners—and their families. Ours is an impact that is best felt one-on-one, in the words, faces, and homes of those hardworking souls who partnered with us, our volunteers, and our donors, working side-by-side with each other and the Habitat LA community to better their lives, the lives of their children, their extended families, and their fellow homeowners one nail, one board, one tile at a time. Given Habitat LA's range of services and the distinct needs of each homeowner we partner with, we continually measure our efforts in relation to both our mission and vision of creating affordable healthy homes. Lastly, to assess impact, we use both qualitative and quantitative measures.

What have and haven't you accomplished so far?

For 25 years, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles has strengthened low-income communities from Long Beach to the mountains and from Montebello to the Ventura County line, covering two-thirds of Los Angeles County. This vast region is comprised of 182 communities, 51 cities, including the City of Los Angeles, and 61 unincorporated areas throughout the County. Together, over 125,000 volunteers and donors have invested more than 1 million service hours building, renovating and repairing over 700 homes. Together, we've helped nearly 4,000 Angelenos build opportunities for their families and strengthen their communities with decent, sustainable, and a¬ffordable housing. In 2009, through Habitat LA's Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative (NRI), the city of Lynwood was selected as the first targeted area. Over the next 5 years, Habitat LA invested $24. 3 million dollars to revitalize targeted census tracts with high blight, overcrowding, crime, and unemployment. The investment translated into $163 million in economic impact and created 69 new homeownership opportunities, repaired 25 homes, and renovated key community buildings (ie. churches and markets)Yet to Accomplish Los Angeles County is an area nearly devoid of affordable housing opportunities. In fact, the area was recently ranked as one of the nation's least affordable metro regions. Angelenos are faced with a higher than average cost of living, which places an added burden particularly on low-income residents; while modest strides have been made since the 2008 Great Recession, across Los Angeles County the struggle to provide an adequate amount of affordable housing for low and very-low income residents remains. By 2020 Habitat LA will invest $100 million to make a transformational impact by helping families, revitalizing neighborhoods across Los Angeles, and creating more access to affordable housing. To date, we are nearly halfway to our goal. Through the campaign we will:• Target two new initiative areas: The Washington Area Neighborhood in Long Beach and South Los Angeles. • Partner with 15 cities to improve housing stock. • Provide 150 new partner homebuyers with affordable financing. • Build a new home for Habitat LA and training center which will expand our programs and our job training services. • Open 2 new ReStore Social Enterprises. Today, social and economic trends cloud LA's future. As population growth, gentrification, and antiquated zoning restrictions push home prices ever higher, too many of LA's honest, hardworking families find themselves forced into increasingly unaffordable, substandard housing. Combined, these forces undermine family integrity, neighborhood stability and school quality constricting the social mobility of too many low-income Angelenos. Now is the time to Build a Greater Los Angeles – advancing our communities for generations to come.

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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles works in partnership with God, the community, and people in need by building and renovating homes to make affordable home ownership a matter of conscience and action. The service area of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles encompasses a nearly 900 square-mile roughly bounded by the Ventura County line on the west, Mullholland Drive, Interstates 101 and 60 on the north, San Pedro and the Pacific Ocean beyond on the south, and the Orange county line on the east. Since 1990, we have built and rehabilitated over 900 homes locally and internationally. Habitat for Humanity is an ecumenical Christian organization that does not identify with any one church or denomination.

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